Subject: Re: plant lights vs sunlight
From: [email-masked] (Paul G Johnson)
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 16:49:09 GMT
Newsgroups: bionet.plants

In article <[email-masked]>,
 <[email-masked]> wrote:

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>The best  choice for your purpose is probably fluorescent
light, particularly
>the purple variety of tubes.  Get your seedlings as close as you can
>to the tubes to increase light intensity.

The best light source I have found are cool-white fluorescent lamps. You
may also wish to add a few incandescent bulbs to add more of the dark-red
(or far-red in the literature) wavelengths. Don't waste your money on the
so called "grow lamps".

PJ